Youtube Treats

[coolie]

Here are some vids from Youtube about DUTCH CUT FELLING

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbN1sKN7IlI]YouTube - Soft Dutchmen[/ame]

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvVY5jaY9jg]YouTube - "Ultra" Soft Dutchmen[/ame]

Edited September 13, 2009 by coolie
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[coolie]

Felling a Heavy Side leaner. Personally I used to use,(In my logging days) a Split Level Backcut on trees like this,but it would then require wedging.

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyspGE-anEI]YouTube - Heavy Side Leaner[/ame]

 

 

Felling a Tree up a steep Face and kicking it back off the stump to maximise

the merchantable log.

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDEUZ6z7rE]YouTube - Back Slip[/ame]

[Tom D]

Good find, I'd love to spend a few days with one of those logging crews, I bet you'd learn a lot.

[skyhuck]

Good stuff!!

 

Its hard to see what he's doing on the first and third ones, but you get the general idea.

 

He doesn't stick to the NPTC cuts, I guess his insurance is invalid

[skyhuck]

Good find, I'd love to spend a few days with one of those logging crews, I bet you'd learn a lot.

 

Absolutely!!!

[Xerxses]

Log buyers here wouldnt be happy with all the pulled fibres....Loosing money on that. Winch and wedges all the way! Utter pants and unsafe with no exact aim! Work a day with a swedish logger and you learn lots! I know we dont get massive trees, but the ones ive felled with back, side, quaterbacklean has never been a problem! Always get them down where I want.

[skyhuck]

Log buyers here wouldnt be happy with all the pulled fibres....Loosing money on that. .

 

He only pulled, at the very most, a couple of feet of fibres!! which on a 200ft log ain't too bad and on the last one he saved 20ft of log.

 

And as time is money, he saved way more than the value of a little lost timber by not having to have a winch and winch man.

Edited September 13, 2009 by skyhuck

[coolie]

Work a day with a swedish logger and you learn lots! I know we dont get massive trees, but the ones ive felled with back, side, quaterbacklean has never been a problem! Always get them down where I want.

 

I was wondering what the common Commercial Forest spieces were in Sweden and Britian too.

In NZ it is predominantly Radiata Pine,Douglas Fir and Euc Nitens(pulp),lol.

[Tom D]

Most of the commercial stuff round here is Sitka spruce and Norway spruce then theres some Scots pine some fir and some larch but mostly spruce and mostly Sitka at that. They dont let them get too big so they can fell most if it with a harvester.

[Petemate390xp]

nice cutting there i have used this my self when i was cutting big douglas with andrew coxs and jo. 395xp sounds sweet..